Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-19
or GENERAL INTEREST.


The other night he dreamed that the
plane was behind the laths at certain
point in the house. He went there,
took up a clapboard, and found his
tool. Like Rip Van Wrinkles gun, the
plane fell to pieces when he took it up.
Among other relics of the mound
builders discovered near Devils Lake,
d. t., by Prof. Montgomery, Of the
North Dakota University, is what he
calls sacrificial mound. in which,
seventeen inches from the surface. are
wells easily found because of a lining
Of lime about the sides and layers of
bark on the bottom. These ara deep
enough to hold bodies in sitting pos
tUre.
Of a strange freak Of nature the
Steuben Republican says that Henry
Zimmerman, of Scott township, has a
freak of nature in the form of a pig
with only two legs, both in front.
Strange to say, it runs about with per-
feet ease with its body clear from the
ground. There is not a sign Of a hip
or leg behind. The pig is four weeks
old and is as fat and healthy as any in
the litter"
The Columbia Sentinel, of Georgia,
| publishes this death notice: son Fri
day last, just after the sun had kissed
this world good night, and passed into
its bed of crimson and gold, the spirIt
Of A. G. Sturgis vacated its habitatior
Of clay, and wended its way to the
Father who gave it, and to-day is
walking the glory-lit hills Of immortal
| lty in the New Jerusalem, where there
is no night"
The latest ''fad' is the interest at,
tached to the finding of an old button
shoe. We are told with great SINGER
ity that a young girl on finding one
would count the buttons remaining on
it she would be able to tell exactly the
| number Of years which would elapse
before her marriage, each button repre-
senting one year. 1t is looked upon as
great piece of misfortune (by the
credulous) to find shoe minus but
tons.
The want of accuracy in shooting,
| owing to the imperfect construction Of
the cannon in early times, is we'll illus
trated by the fact that in 1912, at the
battle Of Salamanca, 3,500,000 car
tridges and 5000 cannon balls were
fred, with the result of only 5000 men
being put hors de combat And as late
rs 1857, during the Kaffir war, $4,000
cartridges were fired in single engage
ment i'll which only twenty-five of the
enemy were killed.
From all accounts of the "silver
snake" of Honduras it most resembles
quicksilver in its movements. One
traveller tells of a specimen four inches
long and about the size Of fence wire
which it was impossible to hold when
taken III the hands The statement is
repeated, which is said to be made on
good authority. that fowl often eat
these snakes and shortly after can
have the pleasure of doing so again, as
in q few minutes one will wiggle
through the alimentary camel and can
perform the feat many times without
firing.
A new clock that IS attracting con-
siderable attention represents the after
deck of steam yacht. Coils Of rope
are laid about the deck and two small
boats are suspended from the davits.
The dial of the clock is set in front of
the wheel house, and in front Of it
leading below is the cOmpanionway.
Above the dial is the wheel; a sailor
has his hands on it and is represented
rs steering the yacht. The wheel
moves backward and forward and the
sailor moves with it. Sailors holding
ropes are standing in various attitudes
about the deck.
The new Florida law requiring the
railway companies to provide separate
coaches for colored people is very
burdensome to some Of the roads. The
Louisville & Nashville represents to
the Railroad Commissioners that if re-
quired to comply with it the companies
will be compelled to haul third coach
very frequently without passengers, or
else assign one Of the two coaches to
the colored passengers and the other to
the white, which will necessarily for
bid smoking upon the train. It is
therefore requested that they be allowed
to run a partitioned coach, one-half OF
which will be exclusively for colored
passengers.
"A drummer had spite at hotel
in Palestine, Tex, and resolved on a
terrible revenge. So, when he went
to Galveston he ''bagged' lot Of
cockroaches, for which the Island City
is celebrated. Bringing lot Of the
largest specimens, commonly called by
native GalYestonians ''deggerloogers,
the drummer took them to the hotel and
turned them loose in the halls and cor
rilors. In about two weeks the hotel
was swarming with them, and they got
into the soups, preserves, jams, mo-
iasses, in the milk-everywhere, and
worked hard all day and sat up all